Posted on 04/11/2002 7:02:04 AM PDT by Uncle Bill
"They do it behind closed doors on Capitol Hill"
Most Americans Are Socialists At Heart Today
The Socialist Party Platform of 1932 | Programs Adopted by the Roosevelt Administration |
A federal appropriation of $5,000,000,000 for immediate relief for those in need to supplement state and local appropriations. | Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA), May 12, 1933 |
A federal appropriation of $5,000,000,000 for public works and roads, reforestation, slum clearance, and decent homes for the workers by the federal government, states, and cities. | Public Works Administration (PWA), established by the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), May 17, 1933 Civilian Conservation Corps (Reforestation) Act (CCC), March 31, 1933 Home Owners Loan Corp. (HOLC), established by the Home Owners Refinancing Act, April 13, 1933 Other agencies |
Legislation providing for the acquisition of land, buildings, and equipment necessary to put the unemployed to work producing food, fuel, and clothing, and for the erection of housing for their own use. | Various experimental communities were established toward these ends. |
The six-hour day and the five-day work-week without a reduction in wages. | The Black bill for the establishment of a thirty-hour week was not passed by Congress. |
A comprehensive and efficient system of free public employment agencies. | Each state now maintains such offices throughout its jurisdiction. |
A compulsory system of unemployment compensation with adequate benefits, based upon contributions by the government and by employers. | Provided by the Social Security Act, 1936, with additional contributions by employees. |
Old age pensions for men and women sixty years of age and over. | Provided by the Social Security Act, 1936, for those sixty-five years of age and over. |
Health and maternity insurance. | Provided by the Social Security Act, 1936. |
Improved systems of workmen's compensation and accident insurance. | Senate bill 2793, introduced May 9, 1935, by Senator Wagner, culminated in passage by Congress of the Wagner Act, a comprehensive labor-management act. |
The abolition of child labor. | Statutory education requirements and minimum work age laws. |
Government aid to farmers and small homeowners to protect them against mortgage foreclosure and a moratorium on sales for nonpayment of taxes by destitute farmers and unemployed workers. | Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), March 16, 1933 Farm Credit Administration (FCA), March 27, 1933 Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), 1938 Federal Housing Administration (FHA) HOLC |
Adequate minimum wage laws | Established by the National Recovery Administration (NRA), created by NIRA, May 17, 1933. In 1935, the NRA was found to be unconstitutional by the untied States Supreme Court. Nonetheless, minimum wage limits still exist. |
Like a dog, they gladly return to their vomit of slavery, and gladly will jump up on their masters leg for a piece of bread, and a drink of warm water.
I ask you, in all seriousness, how many Americans(your neighbors, friends, relatives, etc.)unequivocally support most, if not all of the following economic and political policies. It is more than something to ponder, it should sober ones soul, mind, spirit and body.
The Communist Manifesto Planks
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
1. Abolition of property in land and the application of all rents of land to public purposes. (zoning laws are the first step to government property ownership)
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. (need we say anything !)
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. (read inheritance taxes)
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. (read the accused, not the convicted - Asset forfeiture laws, DEA, IRS, ATF etc...).
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. (read Federal Reserve Bank, Fiat Paper Money and fractional reserve banking)
6. Centralization of the means of communications and transportation in the hands of the State. (read DOT, FAA, FCC etc...)
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. (read "controlled" rather than "owned", or subsidized)
8. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. (read Minimum Wage and slave labor. You know like in China, our Most Favored Nation trade partner. Can you figure out why we are partnered with communists ?)
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country. (read forced relocations and forced sterilization programs, you know, like in China.)
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production. (so that all children can be indoctrinated and inculcated with the government propaganda, like "majority rules", and "pay your fair share". I defy you to show me the words "fair share" anywhere in the Constitution, Bill of Rights or the Internal Revenue Code (Title 26). ANYWHERE !! The whole philosophical concept of "fair share" comes from the Communist maxim, "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need ! The very concept is pure socialism.)
The people and politicians who believe in these things gladly pass more and more laws implementing these ideas are traitors to the American Constitution.
KNOW YOUR ENEMY.
Let's Take A Look At Charley Reese's(Orlando Sentinel) Breakdown of The Communist Manifesto Planks:Article Here
If old Karl Marx, the embittered inventor of communism, could return from the grave, he would no doubt be surprised to find that most of the 10 planks of his Communist Manifesto, issued in 1848 in collaboration with Frederick Engels, have been happily adopted or are at least supported by Americans. Let's look at the 10 planks:
1. "Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes." Well, we're working on this one. The federal government owns huge amounts of land and is acquiring more. Private property rights are being eroded deliberately in the name of protecting the environment.
2. "A heavy progressive or graduated income tax." Need I say more? Before Ronald Reagan's tax law changes we had exactly that and many Americans support the idea of taxing the rich more than the less-rich.
3. "Abolition of all rights of inheritance." We haven't gone all the way on that one, but heavy estate taxes are a step in that direction. Estate taxes are purely punitive because they are taxes levied on assets on which multiple taxes have already been paid many times.
4. "Confiscation of the property of emigrants and rebels." Well, our forefathers confiscated the property of those who supported the British during the Revolution, and, under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and other civil statutes, property is being confiscated right and left in the name of the war on drugs.
5. "Centralization of credit in the hands of the state . . . ." Pretty much done. See the Federal Reserve Act.
6. "Centralization of the means of communications and transport in the hands of the state." Seen a private road or bridge lately? Who licenses all radio and television? Only the First Amendment saves the print press from federal licensing, but I suspect that hate-speech laws will soon follow hate-crime laws, and that will erode that freedom.
7. "Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state . . . ." Well, the government runs many businesses and some folks would like to see it run more.
8. "Equal obligation to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture." We've escaped this one mainly, in my opinion, because of the Second Amendment (the right to own firearms) and mechanization.
9. "Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of distinction between town and country." Pretty much done, because big corporations dominate what's left of agriculture and mass communications have more or less erased cultural differences.
10. "Free education of all children in public schools. Abolition of child factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production." Done.
Again, ask yourself how many Americans today do not unequivocally support most, if not all, of the following planks of the National(Nazi) Party of Germany, adopted in Munich on February 24, 1920:
"We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living."
"The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand...an end to the power of the financial interests." - Note:"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." - Hillary Clinton, 1993
"We demand profit sharing in big business."
"We demand a broad extension of care for the aged."
"We demand...the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of the national, state, and municipal governments."
"In order to make possible every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education...We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents..."
"The government must undertake the improvement of public health by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor...by the greatest possible support for all clubs concerned with the physical education of youth."
"We combat the...materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of The Common Good Before The Individual Good."
Additional Note:
"Contrary to the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership, they explained, is secondary: what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property-so long as the state reserves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property." - Ominous Parallels, Leonard Peikoff
Shadow Government of The United States and the Decline of America
"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world."
Daniel Webster, 1851
I gotta laugh - all these folks scream "CFR tramples the Constitution!", while no one says squat about the trampling on the Constitution the donations buy.
An analogy would be if the folks on Flight 93 spent their last moments complaining that the bags of peanuts were too small...
(Price of Free Corn, bump, OWK)
Similarly, if politicians' acts were publicized, and citizens voted them out, it would stop. Paradoxically, since there is so much of this crap, we can't focus on anyone or anything.
If ever a post illustrated how the Ship of State is taking on water, this is it. Probably a good time to check the condition of the lifeboats.
"Lifeboats? We ain't got no lifeboats."
"We don't need any estinking lifeboats!"
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